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The Declaration of Independence
Summary
In the 12 lectures of THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE: AMERICA'S BIRTH CERTIFICATE, Professor Richard Bell will help you unpack the Declaration’s dense text and rhetoric, trace the colonists’ vote for independence, take a detailed look at the editing and revisions by Congress, witness the spread of the Declaration, assess the sacred meaning the document has for Americans, and much more.Richard Bell is a Professor of History at the University of Maryland. He holds a BA from the University of Cambridge and a PhD from Harvard University. The winner of more than a dozen teaching awards, Dr. Bell has held major research fellowships at Yale University, the University of Cambridge, and the Library of Congress, and he is the author or coeditor of multiple journal articles and three books, including The American Revolution and the Fate of the World and Stolen: Five Free Boys Kidnapped into Slavery and Their Astonishing Odyssey Home, which was a finalist for the George Washington Prize and the Harriet Tubman Prize. Dr. Bell serves as a trustee of the Maryland Historical Society, an elected member of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, and a fellow of the Royal Historical Society.